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THIS IS THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT IN A SERIES about Henry Beston, author of the Cape Cod nature classic, The Outermost House, and his service in World War I, which began 100 years ago. In 1915, 27-year-old Henry Sheahan (later known as Henry Beston of The Outermost House fame) came to France to serve as an ambulance [...]

THIS IS THE THIRD INSTALLMENT IN A SERIES about Henry Beston, author of the Cape Cod nature classic, The Outermost House, and his service in World War I, which began 100 years ago. It had only four months since Henry Sheahan, who would later come to be known as Henry Beston, author of The Outermost House, [...]

THIS IS THE SECOND INSTALLMENT IN A SERIES about Henry Beston, author of the Cape Cod nature classic, The Outermost House, and his service in World War I, which began 100 years ago. There were many great literary figures who served as ambulance drivers during World War I — among them Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to [...]

THIS IS THE FIRST INSTALLMENT IN A SERIES about Henry Beston, author of the Cape Cod nature classic, The Outermost House, and his service in World War I, which began 100 years ago. When the National Park Service proposed the preservation of the Outer Beach of Cape Cod during the 1950s, it cited Henry Beston’s book, [...]

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Don Wilding

Don Wilding is the executive director and co-founder of the Henry Beston Society, a non-profit organization promoting the works and philosophies of the author of "The Outermost House." A veteran of 28 years of working for newspapers in ... Read Full